Given that she signed a 3 year lease, I'd be inclined to spend the $159 and keep her happy.

I will "retire" at that point and spend the rest of my life doing what I want to do--including investing--with an unobstructed and unthreatened stream of income.  

@Markees LewisWelcome to the BP family there's a lot of support here for your realestate endeavor's.When you get a minute checkout the NE Ohio (Cleveland) market you don't have to spend a lot to make great returns..Good luck..

I know people on this site say buy 1 home to fix and rent to get your feet wet but would I be crazy to buy 4 and spend the next year fixing to rent ?

And then if I decided to move forward with using them there would be the actual payment for services provided.I don't mind spending the money up front to make sure it gets done correctly, but like most investors I want to make sure I'm paying the appropriate fee to do so. 

Not sure I'd spend the money to run hookups for them if not existing. 

I have been spending the last few weeks figuring out how to recover some money, I have talked to attorneys and they want on minimum $4,000-$5,000 to file a civil case but I am only suing for around $8,500 for the general contractor so it really doesn't make any sense.

My end game is to spend more time with my son and less time working tedious and unfulfilling jobs to support him.

I have looked around and i don't want to spend $600 a year for this. 

Figuring out creative financing is where you should be spending most of your time at this point.